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Green Card Lottery Process
Green Card Lottery Registration opens on the first Wednesday of October 12pm EDT (GMT -4) to the second Tuesday of November 12pm EST (GMT-5) for millions of nationalities around the globe for a chance to apply for the American visa to become a U.S. legal permanent resident (green card holder).
Natives of countries and areas are not eligible to apply, because more than 50,000 natives of these countries immigrated to the United States in the previous five years will be published.
- Bangladesh
- Brazil
- Canada
- China (including Hong Kong SAR)
- Colombia
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Republic of Korea (South Korea)
- United Kingdom (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Natives of Macau SAR and Taiwan are eligible
*If your country is not shown on this list, then your country might be eligible. The only exception is U.S.A.*
Every year, thousands of entrants get frustrated with website crashes experienced on the state department’s lottery entry site and Thousands of make costly mistakes on their registrations because they have not written down the correct information needed for filling their registration.
Wofoy TV has created a checklist to solve this problem. This checklist form is to be used to collect the information needed to fill out the diversity visa application.
Each DV applicant must meet the education/work experience
requirement of the DV program by having either:
• at least a high school education or its equivalent, defined as successful
completion of a 12-year course of formal elementary and secondary
education
“Formal course of elementary and secondary education in another country that is comparable to completion of 12 years of elementary and secondary education in the United States. A United States high school education is sufficient to qualify a student to apply for college admission so a foreign education should also be sufficient to allow a student to apply for college admission without further education to be equivalent to a United States education. Vocational degrees that are not a basis for further academic study are not equivalent to United States high school education.”
All applicants qualifying for a DV based on their work experience must, within the five years preceding the date of their visa application, have two years of experience in an occupation that is classified in a Specific Vocational Preparation (SVP) range of 7.0 or higher.
Go to O*Net Online
Click on the “Find Occupations” link;
- On the “Find Occupations” screen, enter occupational title, such as, “mason, “painter,” “hairdresser,” etc., and click on the “Go” button. A search results page appears with a list of various occupation titles that relate to whatever job title was entered. Click on the link in the “Occupation” column for the title that seems appropriate for the DV applicant’s job experience;
- A brief description for the job title will appear followed by more detailed data covering the following areas: tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, work activities, work context, job zone, interests, work values, related occupations, and wages and employment.